Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That fat Cockney with his stupid tattoos and his jocular manner and his dirty jokes ; he should have dumped him in the canal ! |
| 2 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
| 3 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 4 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 5 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 6 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |
| 7 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
| 8 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
| 9 | Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock . |
| 10 | I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time . |
| 11 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 12 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
| 13 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 14 | The vicious campaigns conducted during the 1930s against Doriot , Trotsky , Radek and Bukharin would have left him in no doubt on that score . |
| 15 | D'Indy 's editorial colleague , Charles Malherbe , the scholarly archivist and librarian at the Paris Opera who was in charge of collating the sources , would have left him in no doubt that the scoring here was complète . |
| 16 | The Resistance would have put him in the grave if the Nazis had followed them . |